Thirteen years is a long time to be quiet, especially when music has been your whole life. Amy Grant joins Andrew Osenga on The Pivot to talk about what it took to come back: a bike wreck in the summer of 2022, hours of neurological testing at Vanderbilt, and a doctor who gave her two words of advice — lean in. What followed was a new album, The Me That Remains, built not from a record deal or a producer contract, but from a poem Amy wrote to herself about who she was now, on the other side of everything. They talk about the song she wrote with Tom Douglas the morning after her mother passed, why she calls her daily movement routine "child's play," and what it actually feels like to make music in your sixties — without pressure, without pretending, and with something that sounds a lot like peace.

Thought-Provoking Quotes:
"Everyone is always in some state of recovery. You can't live life and not be." - Amy Grant

"Everything is the result of incremental change over the long haul. That just has been the beautiful lesson of a long season of recovery." - Amy Grant

"Most mornings I wake up and I just feel like — I woke up. I got another day." - Amy Grant

"It's a noisy world, it's a busy world. What everybody probably needs is a little more silence, space, peace. But as a creative, I hope I create something, anything, that somebody wants to return to." - Amy Grant

"Caring for something — a person or something — is a big part of loving it." - Amy Grant

Links, Products, and Resources Mentioned:

“The Me That Remains” — Amy Grant

“The Hits” (compilation) — Amy Grant

“The Journey” (compilation) — Amy Grant

Wayne Brzenka — artist who created the album cover artwork

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*All episode music is by Andrew Osenga.

Guest’s Links:

Amy Grant’s website

Amy Grant’s Facebook

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